I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a ...hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it.... I edit people's clothes, dressing them infallibly in the right lines.... I change everyone's coiffure--except those that please me--and these I gaze at with such satisfaction that I become suspect, I edit people's tones of voice, their laughter, their words. I change their gestures, their photographs. I change the books I read, the music I hear ... It's this incessant, unavoidable observation, this need to distinguish and impose, that has made me an editor. I can't make things. I can only revise what has been made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Managing Editor: That's rotten. 'Costello slaying starts gang war.' That's what I want.Copy Chief: I'm working on that angle.... I've got four men on it.Managing Editor: Four. You'll need forty men on this story for the next five years. You know what's happening. This town is up for the grabs, get me. You know Costello was the last of the old- fashioned gang leaders. There's a new crew coming out, and every guy that's got money enough to buy a gun is going to try to step in his place. You see, they'll be shooting each other like rabbits for the control of the booze business. You get it. It'll be just like war. That's it--war. You put that in the lead. War--gang war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To be an editor, as I was.Then to lie here close by the river over the place...Where the sewage flows from the village,And the empty cans and garbage are dumped,And abortions are hidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Following publication of an advertisement of a "Barbacue & Ice" at Beauchamp's Springs, at which congressional candidates were to ...speak, the editor of the Houston Morning Star, of July 4, 1839, said: "(It will) not be an unfavorable opportunity for these gentlemen to express their true politics ... provided ... the liquors do not prove too powerful."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit...or wrote me, "Your poems are dynamic, colorful, exciting, but too strong for a woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldes...t or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The artistic performance of a stage actor is definitely presented to the public by the actor in person; that of the screen actor, ...however, is presented by a camera, with a twofold consequence. The camera that presents the performance of the film actor to the public need not respect the performance as an integral whole. Guided by the cameraman, the camera continually changes its position with respect to the performance. The sequence of positional views which the editor composes from the material supplied him constitutes the completed film. It comprises certain factors of movement which are in reality those of the camera, not to mention special camera angles, close-ups, etc.... Also, the film actor lacks the opportunity of the stage actor to adjust to the audience during his performance, since he does not present his performance to the audience in person. This permits the audience to take the position of a critic, without experiencing any personal contact with the actor. The audience's identification with the actor is really an identification with the camera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The trenchant editorials plus the keen rivalry natural to extremely partisan papers made it necessary for the editors to be expert... pugilists and duelists as well as journalists. An editor made no assertion that he could not defend with fists or firearms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »